Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

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Let me next deal strictim, or at downright blows with you. I first serve every Soul here with an Arrest, That he was once a Child of Wrath, Eph. 2. 3. Children of Wrath by Nature as well as others; let every Man clear himself of it unto God as he can; all were born such, and continue such until now, 1 John 2. 9. if they have not become otherwise, by an escape made (from the sense of this danger) which is termed by the Baptist a flying from the Wrath to come, Mat. 3. 7. an escaping the Damnation of Hell, by Christ, Mat. 23. 33. As the Murderer did when he ran to the City of Refuge from the attach of the Avenger of Blood, (as in Heb. 6. 18. the allusion is) a flying for refuge unto Christ. Which escape is made by a solid, and serious, and over-pouring apprehension of that estate to be such, as that a Man continuing therein, he apprehends he is every moment obnoxious to this Wrath, which drives him unto Christ as a Deliverer from that Wrath, joined with a giving a Man's self up to him: Both which, through the Power of the Holy Ghost accompanying them, do work a change of Heart and Life in him, an actual turning of the Soul unto God from all Sin to Godliness. And until ⟨p. 230⟩a Man be thus ingrafted into Christ, and thereby made a new Creature in him, All this Wrath, as Christ says John 3. ult. remains or abides upon him. Which word [remains] imports (as was said) his condition to have been originally, and in it self, and from the beginning, and uninterruptedly under Wrath; until saving Faith, which is accompanied with Regeneration and true Repentance, puts the difference. So as there needs no more to be enquired of such a Man, but what have you to say for the alteration of your Estate? without which it is one and the same that it was at the first; he continues under Condemnation until now: Wrath remains. As we use to say, An Outlawry, a Sentence of Death remains upon a Man till pardoned. He says not only that the Wrath of God is coming upon such a Man, (as the Apostle's Phrase is) but it abides, &c. the Apostle indeed says, it comes, as in respect to the execution